2023-25 Decision-making: The Border Poll
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Deborda

DECISION-MAKING

.
CONSENSUS VOTING  一  AND THE SURVIVAL OF OUR SPECIES
(Not the but) a cause of the current horrible violence in the Middle East is Tel-Aviv's extreme right-wing coalition.  Apparently, you can go to bed with the devil, as long as you're 50% + 1, it's still 'democratic'.
.
In theory, majority rule is fine.  Majority voting is not.  If and when a controversy is multi-optional 一 and in a plural democracy, that is, or should be, just about always 一 disputes cannot be resolved justly from a choice of only two options.
At an open public meeting in Queen's University in Sept. 2023, the debate was on the border poll.  The participants registered to vote on their (very) smart phones on the www.debordavote.com website; next, in debate, they chose seven options, so the CC consensus coefficients were: CCMAX 1.00; CCMIN 0.14; CCMEAN 0.57; then on their mobiles they cast their preferences on (one, some or) all of these options, and the results on  https://www.debordavote.com/advanced-analysis/138  are as follows:
          OPTION                        CC

A 2-part federal Ireland

0.76

A 4-part federal Ireland

0.71

Anglo-Celtic Federation

0.67

A united Ireland

0.62

An independent NI

0.52

The status quo

0.29

A united British Isles

0.10

 

 

Article originally appeared on After Jean-Charles de Borda, 1733-99 (http://www.deborda.org/).
See website for complete article licensing information.